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http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specificationBlogEngine.NET 3.3.5.0en-UShttp://www.shiftup.ca/blog/opml.axdShiftUP ConsultingShiftUP Consulting0.0000000.000000A Quick Thank You To The Jolly Roger Telephone Company<p>Have you ever been called by someone claiming to be Microsoft technical support, Revenue Canada or the IRS, only to find that it's someone trying to steal your information?</p>
<p>Where you might have told them exactly where to go or better yet, kept them on the line to waste THEIR time, this guy is working to keep them occupied permanently and shut them down wherever they're found!</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/article/programmer-declares-war-on-windows-support-scammers/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://www.zdnet.com/article/programmer-declares-war-on-windows-support-scammers/</a></p>
<p>So we'd just like to take a quick moment to thank Roger Anderson from the&nbsp;<a href="http://jollyrogertelephone.com/i-am-going-to-eradicate-the-inbound-windows-support-scam/" target="_blank">Jolly Roger Telephone Company</a> for his work stamping out some of the world's evil</p>http://www.shiftup.ca/blog/post/A-Quick-Thank-You-To-The-Jolly-Roger-Telephone-Company
http://www.shiftup.ca/blog/post/A-Quick-Thank-You-To-The-Jolly-Roger-Telephone-Company#commenthttp://www.shiftup.ca/blog/post.aspx?id=d6c47509-145b-4887-bfe5-560febff98bbFri, 24 Feb 2017 04:08:00 -0700ClientsProgrammingDavehttp://www.shiftup.ca/blog/pingback.axdhttp://www.shiftup.ca/blog/post.aspx?id=d6c47509-145b-4887-bfe5-560febff98bb0http://www.shiftup.ca/blog/trackback.axd?id=d6c47509-145b-4887-bfe5-560febff98bbhttp://www.shiftup.ca/blog/post/A-Quick-Thank-You-To-The-Jolly-Roger-Telephone-Company#commenthttp://www.shiftup.ca/blog/syndication.axd?post=d6c47509-145b-4887-bfe5-560febff98bbSearching Smarter<p>As someone who spends a very large part of his day searching the internet for work related solutions, I have a few search tips for you!</p>
<p>The technique I probably use the most is the ignore words feature of google. &nbsp;Say I want to search for a recipe for salsa and I'm having a friend over that isn't a fan of the taste of tomatoes, so I search for <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=salsa+recipe+-tomato" target="_blank">salsa recipe -tomato</a> and I find an interesting recipe for avocado corn salsa. &nbsp;It can also be used in multiples like this -&gt; Imagine you were having a discussion with a friend about this John Wayne movie you were trying to remember. &nbsp;You make a search for <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=John+Wayne+movie" target="_blank">John Wayne movie</a> and you get a slew of&nbsp;results that unfortunately don't ring a bell. &nbsp;Now you know it wasn't a western, so you search for&nbsp;<em>John Wayne movie -western</em> which certainly vastly reduces the search but some of the top results are still not right so you begin filtering them out <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=John+Wayne+movie+-western+-&quot;Jet+Pilot&quot;+-&quot;Blood+Alley&quot;" target="_blank">John Wayne movie -western -"Jet Pilot" -"Blood Alley"</a> and there it is! &nbsp;Circus World! </p>
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<p>Now you might be wondering why I put the quotes around the two&nbsp;last ignored sections. &nbsp;It allows you to restrict (or allow) only the&nbsp;<em>combination</em> of the words Blood and Alley vs removing anything with Blood or Alley in it with -Blood -Alley. &nbsp;An example of the difference is a search for rabbit food versus "rabbit food". &nbsp;The former might show you recipes for rabbit and the latter is more likely to show you foods you should feed your rabbit.</p>
<p>Another useful capability of google search is calculation and conversion. &nbsp;I saw an ad from the US for a 12 oz can and I wanted to know how many ml that was - A search for <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=12+oz+to+ml" target="_blank">12 oz to ml</a> results in a google calculation box appearing with my answer! &nbsp;One of the more frequent questions we hear at the end of a dinner with friends is how much to tip on an amount so&nbsp;<a href="https://www.google.ca/search?q=what+is+the+tip+for+%2489.14" target="_blank">what is the tip for $89.14</a>&nbsp;. &nbsp;It can even do advanced plotting of graphs with a search like&nbsp;<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=cos(3*x)%2Bsin(x)%2C+cos(7*x)%2Bsin(x)" target="_blank">cos(3*x)+sin(x), cos(7*x)+sin(x)</a></p>
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<p>Now these are just a few of the ways you can make your internet searching that much more powerful and there are a lot more here -&nbsp;<a href="http://www.google.ca/intl/en/insidesearch/tipstricks/" target="_blank">http://www.google.ca/intl/en/insidesearch/tipstricks/</a></p>http://www.shiftup.ca/blog/post/Searching-Smarter
http://www.shiftup.ca/blog/post/Searching-Smarter#commenthttp://www.shiftup.ca/blog/post.aspx?id=c89a7823-7426-46e4-bf25-766d582f347bFri, 15 Nov 2013 04:35:00 -0700ClientsDavehttp://www.shiftup.ca/blog/pingback.axdhttp://www.shiftup.ca/blog/post.aspx?id=c89a7823-7426-46e4-bf25-766d582f347b0http://www.shiftup.ca/blog/trackback.axd?id=c89a7823-7426-46e4-bf25-766d582f347bhttp://www.shiftup.ca/blog/post/Searching-Smarter#commenthttp://www.shiftup.ca/blog/syndication.axd?post=c89a7823-7426-46e4-bf25-766d582f347bSearch Engine Optimization (SEO) and Google<p>After talking to a client today about <strong>S</strong>earch <strong>E</strong>ngine <strong>O</strong>ptimization I went for a browse on the internet to see the percentage of the online search market each of the search engines hold. I had assumed that Google held the largest market share but I was <em>considerably</em> off in my assessment of just <em>how much</em> they held. This <a href="http://marketshare.hitslink.com/search-engine-market-share.aspx?qprid=4&amp;qpcustomd=0" target="_blank">link</a> at hitslink (at the time of publication) indicates that <strong>Google owns over 85% of the search market share</strong> and pulls its data from a pool of 160 million visitors a month and for comparison. &nbsp;Hitwise says Google has just shy of 70% of the market <a href="http://www.hitwise.com/us/datacenter/main/dashboard-10133.html" target="_blank">here</a>. </p>
<p>Most of the major search engine companies had been following Google's lead as to ranking techniques for quite a while now (ignoring meta keywords etc.) due to webmasters abusing certain older ranking techniques.&nbsp; Now that real content and actual clicks into your website rank your website on Google, etcetera, instead of hidden words on your web pages and text in the same color as your background: the need for well structured and frequently updated content is paramount.</p>
<p>If you need someone to help you align your content towards drawing more traffic from search engines and to assist Google with tracking clicks through your website please let us know as we'd be glad to help!</p>http://www.shiftup.ca/blog/post/Search-Engine-Optimization-and-Google
http://www.shiftup.ca/blog/post/Search-Engine-Optimization-and-Google#commenthttp://www.shiftup.ca/blog/post.aspx?id=7c114db6-d4e1-4dd1-ae23-1aebbb6db5c7Wed, 7 Apr 2010 12:41:00 -0700ClientsSEODavehttp://www.shiftup.ca/blog/pingback.axdhttp://www.shiftup.ca/blog/post.aspx?id=7c114db6-d4e1-4dd1-ae23-1aebbb6db5c70http://www.shiftup.ca/blog/trackback.axd?id=7c114db6-d4e1-4dd1-ae23-1aebbb6db5c7http://www.shiftup.ca/blog/post/Search-Engine-Optimization-and-Google#commenthttp://www.shiftup.ca/blog/syndication.axd?post=7c114db6-d4e1-4dd1-ae23-1aebbb6db5c7